The St. Louis Rams are a professional American
football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently
members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference
(NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team has won
two NFL Championships and one Super Bowl.
The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,
Ohio. The NFL considers the franchise as as a second incarnation
of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member
of the second American Football League. Although the NFL granted
membership to the same owner, the NFL considers it a separate
entity since only four of the players (William "Bud"
Cooper, Harry "The Horse" Mattos, Stan Pincura, and
Mike Sebastian) and none of the team's management joined the new
NFL team.
The team then became known as the Los Angeles
Rams after the club moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946.
Following the 1979 season, the Rams moved south to the suburbs
in nearby Orange County, playing their home games at Anaheim Stadium
in Anaheim for fifteen seasons (1980-94), keeping the Los Angeles
name. The club moved east to St. Louis prior to the 1995 season.